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10-16-2016, 12:38 PM   #16
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QuoteOriginally posted by lennyl Quote
HopelessTogger:
one friend with K-1 bought the DFA24-70WR (1.130euro) and we tested DFA24-70 vs my Sigma 24-70/2,8 IF EX DG HSM.

Both lenses has absolutely quite focusing (HSM and SDM), the optical quality were both lenses the nearly same, but Pentax focuses less accurately - of course we tried to switch cross the lenses on two K-1.
Purchase of Sigma is my best deal in life (411euro).


DFA24-70 vs Sigma 24-70
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Sigma 24-70 vs FA31Limited
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Thank you, Lennyl. Yes, that was a real bargain.

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yes, in our country is still available.

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10-16-2016, 03:33 PM   #18
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QuoteOriginally posted by lennyl Quote
yes, in our country is still available.

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG IF HSM, baj. Pentax - PRO.Laika
I'll see what that Pound does this week. That lens could be over a million Pounds by Thursday the way it's going.
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As far as I know there was an compatibility issue with the Sigma 24-70/2,8 IF EX DG HSM, but more mechanically (cousing a scratch in the housing of the K1).
Sigma would fix an adapt i for you if you aleady had one.
There is older version of this Lens to Sigma 24-70/2,8 IF EX DG (without HSM). I dont know if it is the same issue with tis lens.

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domisplanet: no, the old Sigma 24-70/2,8 EX IF DG and 70-200/2,8 EX IF DG HSM II Macro and new Sigma 35/1,4 ART are OK. But the Sigma 50/1,4 EX IF DG HSM and Sigma 70-200/2,8 EX IF DG OS HSM scratch my K-1.
I thing is dependet on one each piece.

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I actually must agree with the OP. I find the willingness of the community to overlook this highly surprising. I have never owned a lens that would vignette so much. I don't consider it OK. It's not OK. The lens is affordable but hardly 'cheap'. Why is it that people are so keen on accepting 'faults' as part of the deal and happily paying for them? The vignetting coupled with the completely unacceptable distortion levels at the wide end make this lens a rather poor buy. In camera lens correction slows the camera operation massively. It should not be assumed everyone will shoot in RAW either. Contemplating returning mine despite having purchased it at a very attractive price.

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QuoteOriginally posted by mag07 Quote
I actually must agree with the OP. I find the willingness of the community to overlook this highly surprising. I have never owned a lens that would vignette so much. I don't consider it OK. It's not OK. The lens is affordable but hardly 'cheap'. Why is it that people are so keen on accepting 'faults' as part of the deal and happily paying for them? The vignetting coupled with the completely unacceptable distortion levels at the wide end make this lens a rather poor buy. In camera lens correction slows the camera operation massively. It should not be assumed everyone will shoot in RAW either. Contemplating returning mine despite having purchased it at a very attractive price.
I don't own this lens. Or a K-1. But I read a lot of reviews on multiple platforms and a lot of modern lenses are in this same design mode. What affordable zoom for a Nikon or Canon does this better in the same price range and zoom range? (I'm not arguing with you btw - I'm curious since I have no current full frame aspirations - this is all academic to me at the moment.)

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For me, 28-105 is too narrow on the short end.

Prior to the K-1, I was using a K-5 with Pentax' DA 16-85/3.5-5.6.
HD Pentax-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR Reviews - DA Zoom Lenses - Pentax Lens Reviews & Lens Database

Something equivalent to that would have a focal range of about 24-128mm. Once upon a time, there was a Tamron 24-135, but that's difficult to obtain on the 2nd hand market.

Now I'm using an (old) Pentax FA 24-90/3.5-4.5 with fairly decent results.

SMC Pentax-FA 24-90mm F3.5-4.5 AL [IF] Reviews - FA Zoom Lenses - Pentax Lens Reviews & Lens Database

For me, the missing length is not as big a problem as the reduced wideness of a 28mm lens would have been.

A pity, a real pity that Pentax decided to come up with a 28-105, when both competitors have 24-120mm lenses as better kit lenses for their full-frame DSLRs.

And another pity that Sigma continues to ignore the Pentax market by not producing the new 24-105 "art" lens with K bayonet.
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@ mag07. that is exactly what i mean. It's not the most expensive lens but it's definitely not a bargain. It sells around 700 USD here. I would expect a bit more for a lens wich was specifically designed for a camera system.

I'll probaly try it with eighter the Tamron 28-75 2,8 or the Sigma 24-70 2,8.

Does anybody have some sample images with the Tamron?
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QuoteOriginally posted by UncleVanya Quote
I don't own this lens. Or a K-1. But I read a lot of reviews on multiple platforms and a lot of modern lenses are in this same design mode. What affordable zoom for a Nikon or Canon does this better in the same price range and zoom range? (I'm not arguing with you btw - I'm curious since I have no current full frame aspirations - this is all academic to me at the moment.)
I haven't got the slightest idea to be fair. You may be right. They very well may all do this For now, I use primes and my old 35-70 way more often then the kit zoom. It's just there, in case I fancy some bad weather action
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QuoteOriginally posted by mag07 Quote
I haven't got the slightest idea to be fair. You may be right. They very well may all do this For now, I use primes and my old 35-70 way more often then the kit zoom. It's just there, in case I fancy some bad weather action
Is that the F or FA 35-70 or the older A series? I don't know much about those lenses other than my Dad's thoughts from when the A series was new - he wasn't a fan. I was shooting back then but I used an F 35-135, an M 28 f/2.8, an M 100 f/2.8, an F 100 f/2.8 Macro, and A* 85 f/1.4 and an FA 80-320 on film. The 35-70 wasn't on my radar since the 35-135 wasn't too bad and I had the 28 and 85 and 100 when I wanted to go prime.
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I doubt any raw shooter who applies vignetting correction in post would complain too much about the new 28-105. Are there jpeg shooters out there who have tried the in-camera peripheral illumination correction of the most recent Ricoh models and find it wanting?
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Funny, I just started a thread a few days ago about how the 28-105 was a big pleasant surprise. I thought it was a huge bargain at $496 and over performs for a "Kit" type lens. The end result for me has been good results and good portability at a fair price.

Owning Sony E mount cameras changed my view away from a lot of things I expected in the film days when a lens had to be able to produce an uncorrected slide. Some of their lenses get panned by some owners for distortion and vignetting you only see if you intentionally process the image without all the corrections Sony built into the raw and JPEG files. You can add glass to correct or you can do it in PP, and, after seeing the results from my Sony, I will happily take the correction in a form that does not add the size, weight and cost of extra glass. If you have ACR or Lightroom (or other raw converters) set up to apply lens profiles by default, you need never see the vignetting at all.

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I doubt any raw shooter who applies vignetting correction in post would complain too much about the new 28-105. Are there jpeg shooters out there who have tried the in-camera peripheral illumination correction of the most recent Ricoh models and find it wanting?
My experience is that the JPEGs are well corrected.
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It seems reasonable to believe lens engineers and software engineers design lenses as a team, so that an affordable lens is intentionally designed with native faults left in, intentionally corrected by camera software. Shooting RAW and developing with lens profiles does the same thing.

For $500 I'm perfectly happy to have software corrections applied and I don't notice any processing bottleneck on my K-1.
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